Method of making jointed toys



S. COLLEDANCHISE METHOD OF MAKING JOINTED TOYS July 19, 1927.

Filed Oct. 12, 1926 Flllllllll'. I I l I I I I l I I I I l l l I I I 1 k l I l I I I l I I IV 1222/6223? 5. Cofiedanclukc Patented July 19, 1927.

UNITED STATES SALVATORE COLLEDANCHISE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF MAKING JOINTED TOYS.

Application filed October 12, 1926. Serial No. 141,093.

This invention relates to a toy resembling in appearance and action, a fish or a. snake,

the toy being flexible laterally, so that it may undulate sidewise like a fish.

The object of the invention is to so improve the method of making jointed toys that a strong and durable toy may be produced at a minimum expense.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specificationp Figure 1 is a side view of a toy made in accordance with my improved method, a portion of one of the molded sections being broken away to expose a portion of the strip of open mesh fabric which flexibly connects the sections. a Figure 2 is -a top plan View of the toy shownby Figure 1, and shows by dotted lines the mold members hereinafter described.

Figure 3 shows the toy in section on line 33 of Figure 1, the mold members being shown by dotted lines.

Figure 4 shows two of the flat faced sections hereinafter described, held in mold members shown by dotted lines, preparatory to being pressed against opposite sides of the strip of open mesh fabric.

Figure 5 is an enlar ement of Figure 3, omitting the mold mem ers.

Figure 6 is a side view of the strip of open mesh fabric, and shows by dotted lines the contour of portions of the upper and lower sides of the toy shown by Figure 1.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

In practicing my improved method, I proceed as follows: I first mold from plastic material,.preferably composed of a hard-drying mixture of comminuted material including sawdust and French talc, and an adhesive, such as glue, two rows of sections 12 having flat inner sides 13, and diver ing end faces 14, the sections being forme in two mold members 15, shownby dotted lines in Fi ures 2, 3 and 4, each section being indepen ent of the others. I then interpose between,

the mold members and the sections therein an elongated strip of open mesh fabric including spaced apart warp strands 16, and spaced apart weft strands 17, which may be of any flexible material having sufficient tensile strength. The strip is as wide as the faces 13, and preferably wider, as indicated by Figure 6, in which the dotted lines indicate the width of the faces 13. I then press the mold members and the sections together,

as indicated by Figure 3, while the mixture is plastic, and thereby cause the flat sides 13 to meet within the open meshes of the fabric. The sections are finally allowed to solidify by drying, and are thereby caused to adhere to each other and to the strands 16 and 17 of the fabric strip. The spaces bounded by the warp and weft strands of the stri are so much larger than the diameter 0 the strands, that sufiicient areas of the plastic inner faces of the sections meet and adhere to each other, to firmly unite the opposite sections in pairs and render said sections practically integral with each other. Each section and the one opposite therefore constitute a practically solid or one piece sectionof the toy.

In case the strip is wider than the faces 13 which is desirable to avoid necessity of careful registration in locating the strip, the projecting portions thereof may be cut away along opposite edges of the row of united sections indicated by the dotted lines shown by Figure 6. The toy thus produced 1s strong, durable, flexible, and relatively mexpensive.

I claim:

That improvement in the method of making a jointed toy, which consists 1n forming in separable molds, from a hard-drying plastic mixture composed of comminuted mate rial and an adhesive, two rows of body sections, each section being independent of the others, the molds being formed to impart diverging end faces and rounded external faces to the sections, interposing between the molds an elongated strip of open mesh fabric, pressing the molds against opposite sides of the strip while the. mixture is plastic, thereby causing the inner faces of t e sections to enter and fill the spaces bounded by the meshes of the fabric, and meetiwitlun said spaces, and allowin the sect1ons to solidify and become rigid y drylng, thereby causingthem to adhere to and become lute gral With each other within the meshes of the fabric strip, the sections having rigid external surfaces adapted to support surface ornamentation.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature. 

